The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-07
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city this year is So, S03,174.
NEW BRIDGE across the Tiber at Rome is TO
be named in honor of Garibaldl.
IT is stated that smelling works to be erected
at Tacoma, w. T., will be the largest in the
United States.
THE Seattle CIV. To- Iatelltgencer states that
two-year-old colt swan six miles across lake
near there lately
A ROOSTER that will crow when commanded
to do so by its owner, amuses Carpentersville,
Warren county, n. j.
A CALIFORNIA GIRL was recently cured by
faith but on the way home from church her
horse ran away and she is now worse than ever.
IT IS reported from Tsit that the emigration
of Russian Jews to America has set in with re-
newed yigor. Large trains pass Tilsit weekly
on their way to Bremen and Hamburg.
EURoPEs annual expenditure for armies and
fleets is So S67, 100000 The national debts in
CURED by war aggregate $24 1905, 655, on
which $1,000, 100000 is annually paid out for
interest.
AuNTY MARIA KENNEDY has just died near
Commentville, Ind. She was born 102 years
ago, was a negro, and her descendants are three
children, twenty grandchildren, and thlFty-nlne
| great grandchildren.
WHEN native in China is bitten by mad
dog, and symptoms of hydrophobia present
themselves, CDe poor IeIOW IS dCCOTuiilS Jus
| tom in such cases, chained up by his hands
and feet till death puts an end to his suffer-
| ings
| MISS MABEL TRUPP, of Ovid n. Y, was much
surprised the other day, as she was breaking
| eggs with which to make cake, when from one
of them popped lively little serpent six inches
| long, and as large as good-sized steel knitting
| needle.
In a Pittsburg theatre the other night,
citizen arose in his seat and violently hurled
| potato at a dude who was examining his (the
! citzen's) wife through an opera glass; and
| thereupon three or four hundred persons Wgor-
| ouSly applauded the husband.
| REV. GEORGE r. ROGERS, of Brooks station,
Ky, though 81 years old, frequently rides his
| horse to Louisville and back, a distance of
twenty-six miles, and he still breaches and mar.
ries folks. He served throughout the war of
| 1872 and draws pension for that service
AN Oceana county (Mich) veteran got $1,000
in pension money recently, gave his wife $500
| worth of toggery, bought a house and lot for
| satisfied, so she sold the house for $500, and,
| taking the money, skipped out with another
man.
In Cape Colony, South Africa, shepherd
| drove flock of ,430 ewes up to a small build
| ing, in which he took refuge from thunder
| storm. AS the sheep crowded around the build
| ing it was struck by lightning, and $50 of them
| killed outright. The shepherd escaped with
| severe shock.
| THERE are two church bells at Messilla, Mex,
that are valuable. They were cast in IT'S, and
it is said that just before the casting was made
at least 81 coo worth of gold and silver jewelry
was dropped into the molten mass of metal by
| the devout, who thought thus to prOpitiate their
| patron saints. The bells are to be melted and
| the precious metals recovered.
| WHEN Farragut's squadron before New
Orleans one of the powder boys saw a shell drop
dangerously near the magazine. The fuse was
| burning furiOusly, but the boy picked up the
shell and tossed it overheard. This was Oscar
| Peck He lives in Bridgeport, Conn, and he
has just received in consideration of his bravery,
| back pension money amounting to 1920.
ABOUT &c, 100000 acres of the best lands in
Allen county, Kansas, upon which fine improve
ments have been made, and which have been
| settled fifteen years, are claimed by the Mis-
| souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad under grant
from the government. The present occupants
| of the land have organized a Settlers Protect
| i've Association, and hired able attorneys to rep
| resent them.
| A South FLORIDA TOWN has young lady post
mistress. She complained to an inspector that
stamps were bought from her and then letters
mailed on the train thus robbing her of the fee
for cancellation. Long did she revolye various
| schemes to prevent this. and finally she can
celled the stamps when sold, and they were
good nowhere else the letters bearing them
were dropped in at her office.
| S. V. FRENCH, the New York city politician,
made queer catch in Montauk Bay the other
! day. What he hauled up a long black fish
J that weighed over four pounds. The popularity
! about it was that its head was fiat, and cor
rugated like the soul of tennis shoe. 1t proved
to be a specimen of the ''remora." By means
of this nat head it dabs itself against the side of
a shark or other large fish and sticks there, and
thus makes its voyages into the deep waters.
| HABITrAL VISITORS to the White Mountains
cannot, remarks a correspondent of the New
York Times, fail to note the growing tendency
of the guests to spend their outings in cottages.
| Every great hotel has suites of private cottages
! which are rented for the season TO wealthy
| families. Cottage life affords delightful OPP
portunity for rest and quiet. and at the same
| time the adjacent hustle and excitement that
obtain at large hotels can be shared in at
pleasure
| WHILE J. H. Robbins was in the mountains
near Granite Creek, Ore, he heard some one
grooming, and upon investigation found Gran
| vile Clark, an old placer miner buried to his
ears by the caving of an open cut. He had been
in this critical condition eight hours and tons of
| powders, rocks, and dirt imprisoned him One
| large rock rested lightly on his shoulder being
mainly supported by the earth. If this rock
| had settled another inch his head would have
been crushed.
| THE stock farms of William NJ. Singerly of
the Philadelphia Record, are situated about
of the Wssahckon, For fifteen years Mr. Sin
gerly has been perfecting this magnificent
| ranch. and is now the Holsten cattle king of
! Pennsylvania. Blooded stock of all kinds is to
be found on the place. Under Jason Sexton,
the manager, the farms and stock have zen i'm
proving every year until at last the ranch is
perfect model of its kind.
THE Berlin Hofndclrichtea announces Off
cialy: "Some time ago domestic, as well as
foreign journals stated that Prof. Mackenzie
had received about 81, 900 marks for the treat
| m6nt OF the Crown Prince, statement which
| was here and elsewhere varously commented
upon. We are authentic a ly informed that the
sum of $4,000 marks covers only the two trips
from and to England of the British physician
The fee itself is by no means incuded in it, and
is left to the discretion of their Royal High
neSses.n
New WORKERS dare not dine on the toothsome
bobolinh if the following slip from the Sun be
true: There are thousands of melancholy
| looking reed birds hanging on the reeds along